About a year ago, my sister asked our parents for Firefly on DVD as a birthday present. I heard her enraptured description, which was approximately along the lines of "Cowboys in space, only it's a lot better than it sounds!" and decided that it sounded like the plot of a really bad movie from the 1950s.
Some months later, bored, I was searching Youtube for amusing clips. One of them linked to the first few episodes of Firefly, which some less than upstanding citizen had uploaded. I had nothing better to do and decided to watch the first episode.
Then I watched the second episode.
Then I watched the third episode.
At some point around the fifth episode I went on Amazon and ordered the complete series, which I then proceeded to finish off in one sitting once it arrived. I promptly tried to finagle all of my friends into watching it with me so that I would have an excuse to watch it again. One of them recommended Buffy, a suggestion I poo-pooed on the grounds that teenagers fighting vampires sounded like the plot of a really bad movie from the 1950s.
Yes, yes, I should have known better by that point.
Some months passed and I went to visit my sister during a vacation. Some friends had loaned her the Chosen Collection, and she suggested that we watch the first season together. I approached it from the point of view of someone who had just watched Firefly, which is to say that I expected interesting-but-unchanging characters and hilarious one-liners. In many ways it seemed like a washed-out version of the later series, the characters just a bit less interesting and the one-liners just a bit less snappy. I later realized that the reason for this is that the Buffy characters developed in a much more complex way over time, but that's another story for another thread.
I came home from my sister's and started ordering the series from Netflix. At some point in Season 3 I gave up on this method of distribution and bought the full series on Ebay, at which point I watched the remaining four-and-a-half seasons in ten blissful if otherwise unproductive days. I reacted to it in a way I found rather bizarre: I found in almost every episode from Season 3 on something I intensely disliked, yet I couldn't stop myself from going back for more. I eventually worked out that the reason for this was that I had grown to see the characters as real people and to react to their romantic misadventures as I might to an insult to a friend. When I finished the series I felt as if someone close to me had died.
Whedon has a new series coming out in January. I can't say that I'm too enthusiastic. I don't know anything about it but the concept, of course, but it sounds as if it were taken from a really bad movie from the 1950s.
Some months later, bored, I was searching Youtube for amusing clips. One of them linked to the first few episodes of Firefly, which some less than upstanding citizen had uploaded. I had nothing better to do and decided to watch the first episode.
Then I watched the second episode.
Then I watched the third episode.
At some point around the fifth episode I went on Amazon and ordered the complete series, which I then proceeded to finish off in one sitting once it arrived. I promptly tried to finagle all of my friends into watching it with me so that I would have an excuse to watch it again. One of them recommended Buffy, a suggestion I poo-pooed on the grounds that teenagers fighting vampires sounded like the plot of a really bad movie from the 1950s.
Yes, yes, I should have known better by that point.
Some months passed and I went to visit my sister during a vacation. Some friends had loaned her the Chosen Collection, and she suggested that we watch the first season together. I approached it from the point of view of someone who had just watched Firefly, which is to say that I expected interesting-but-unchanging characters and hilarious one-liners. In many ways it seemed like a washed-out version of the later series, the characters just a bit less interesting and the one-liners just a bit less snappy. I later realized that the reason for this is that the Buffy characters developed in a much more complex way over time, but that's another story for another thread.
I came home from my sister's and started ordering the series from Netflix. At some point in Season 3 I gave up on this method of distribution and bought the full series on Ebay, at which point I watched the remaining four-and-a-half seasons in ten blissful if otherwise unproductive days. I reacted to it in a way I found rather bizarre: I found in almost every episode from Season 3 on something I intensely disliked, yet I couldn't stop myself from going back for more. I eventually worked out that the reason for this was that I had grown to see the characters as real people and to react to their romantic misadventures as I might to an insult to a friend. When I finished the series I felt as if someone close to me had died.
Whedon has a new series coming out in January. I can't say that I'm too enthusiastic. I don't know anything about it but the concept, of course, but it sounds as if it were taken from a really bad movie from the 1950s.
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Aethra
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ItMustBeBunnies
welcome and great intro karma:)
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Spirit_Of_Fred
awesome introduction :)
